Cultivate doing good. It can be done. If it brought deprivation and sorrow, I would not ask you to do it. But since it brings blessings and happiness, I do ask of you: cultivate doing good.
- Buddha
Abandon wrongdoing. It can be done. If there were no likelihood, I would not ask you to do it. But since it is possible and brings about blessings and happiness, I do ask of you to abandon wrongdoing.
Cultivate doing good. It can be done. If it brought deprivation and sorrow, I would not ask you to do it. But since it brings blessings and happiness, I do ask of you: cultivate doing good. - Buddha We need to be able to live with some pain in our lives.
We need to be able to take some hits. Everything need not be so comfortable all the time. - Guo Jun Thinking about how much we can do in comparison to what we have done serves as a corrective against pride and arrogance. - Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
From Swami Sivananda: “The vast majority of persons, even the so-called educated people, have not definite aim in life. They waste their time and finish their life career in gloom, despair and sorrow. The intellect is there but they have not definite aim or purpose. They have no ideal, no clear cut program of life. Hence, their life becomes a failure.”
Emotional agitation creates a tendency to see what we want to see and not see what
we do not want to see. - Tashi Nyima In any matter we must
know how to turn around and adapt; nothing is unchangeable. - Hsing Yun We need to change our idea of what aging is. If I know my biological potential is 130 years, then I don't consider myself middle-aged until I'm 65. One of the great principles of mind/body medicine is that expectancies determine outcome. If you expect to remain strong in old age, you will. - Deepak Chopra
Yoga has definitely come west. Now the challenge before us is to unlock it's full potential, which is possible only when we are willing to practice it in depth. - Georg Feurstein
Tibetan Buddhist master, Gampopa (1079-1153) compiled a list identifying the “superior” person. Here’s his statement:
It is a sign of a superior person: 1. to be less envious and conceited, 2. to have less craving and be content with just the basics of living, 3. not to be pompous, haughty, or arrogant, 4. to be without hypocrisy or double-dealing, 5. to examine precisely and conscientiously any course of action and then carry it out with mindfulness, 6. to be on guard concerning the karmic consequences of actions, as one would protect one’s own eyes, 7. to be free from duplicity in keeping vows and commitments, 8. not to be prejudiced or false-hearted towards sentient beings, 9. to be forgiving and non-aggressive toward those who do evil, 10. to offer all victories to others and accept all defeats for oneself, and 11. to differ from worldly-minded people in all thoughts and deeds. These are the eleven signs of a superior person. Their opposites are the signs of an inferior person. (Challenge yourself by asking: How do I measure up?) Youth is the best time, the most fitting time in a man's life, to devote himself to spiritual aspiration and spiritual practice. - Swami Sivananda
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